Experimental Murals at Kirkburton - Day003

Today I worked with the core group of boys for the morning session, followed by a short lunchtime session with 15 additional pupils. Once again the group produced an amazing amount of quality work! I look forward to tomorrow!

Side one of the deck nearing completion

Explorations of a similar image on card and digitally using Sketchbook software

Working on board 001

Starting work on board 002

A selection of work from the lunchtime workshop

Crowlees Photography Project - Day 2

I have just had another amazing day at Crowlees J&I School in Mirfield, on their Arts 4 All Photography project. I have been working with Y5 pupils to capture images throughout their school on mobile devices and then process them for creative effect in a range of apps. The children have approached their photography very creatively, exploring many ways in which to capture interesting images. Today we focused on numbers, letters, portraits and shadows and due to the creative angles used, the children have produced some wonderful images.

 And here are some of their images - they had great fun stitching images in various apps...

The children also used some of their images as inspiration for drawing and produced some 'extended drawings - drawing beyond the frame', and also drew directly from their images on the iPad and the iPod Touch. The children had a fantastic day and are creating a wonderful set of imagery for presentation in their book. YR

Experimental Murals at Kirkburton - Day002

Second day of the project, and another cracker! Lots of activity; more painting and drawing on paper, iPad and iPhone painting, painting on a blank skateboard and the boys even made a start on one of the large 8 x 4 board! Amazing! - FL

Various Approaches To Painting

Working on the plywood boards

Working on the Plywood boards

Painting a skate deck

Big Bird

Warm up exercise

More board painting

Posca Pens!!

2 Heads

Skull head

Crowlees Photography Project - Day 1

Today was the first day of the Photography Project at Crowlees J&I School, Mirfield as part of the Kirklees Arts4All Scheme. The day began with a brief introduction and then all 60 Y5 children took part in an 'extended drawing' activity where they explored "beyond the frame" of photographs that had been captured throughout their school. They produced some amazing drawings, some of which are shared below:

For the rest of the day I was working with small groups of children to explore the school through creative photography using mobile devices such as iPod Touchs, iPhones and iPads, capturing intriguing images from all kinds of angles. 

Children also began processing their images through a variety of apps.

Throughout the week the children are looking to create a library of images that will feature in a book, along with drawings and creative writing that they produce, inspired by their own photography. They have already captured lots of images and have ideas for many more! YR